IBM Spectrum Scale Advanced Administration for Linux

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Course Overview

The course includes information on the Spectrum Scale installer toolkit, installer GUI, cluster upgrade scenarios, cluster health monitoring, cluster performance data collection and monitoring, management GUI, file system encryption, cluster security, and call home features. Many of the features are described in lecture materials and implemented in lab exercises.

Who Should Attend

This lecture and exercise-based course is for individuals who want to expand their knowledge of Spectrum Scale advanced installation and management capabilities.

Course Objectives

    • Use advanced installer tools to install Spectrum Scale
    • Upgrade a cluster to a newer level of Spectrum Scale
    • Monitor cluster health
    • Configure cluster performance data collection
    • Monitor cluster performance
    • Configure cluster security options
    • Encrypt file system data
    • Configure the Spectrum Scale call home feature

Course Outline

1 - Course Outline

  • Migrating to IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2
  • Spectrum Scale 4.2 GUI
  • Multi-cluster
  • Clustered NFS
  • Cluster Export Services for multi-protocol support
  • SMB Protocol Support
  • NFS Support in CES; Ganesha overview/performance
  • Active File Management
  • AFM-Based Disaster Recovery (DR) and Asynchronous DR
  • Planning LTFS and GPFS environment for data archiving
  • File Placement Optimizer
  • IBM GPFS-FPO and integration with GPFS Hadoop connector
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Call Home
  • Monitoring and performance tuning
  • Flash Cache metadata migration

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Central time

This is a 3-day class

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 Register 01/08/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
 Register 01/27/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
 Register 02/24/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
 Register 03/24/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
 Register 04/28/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
 Register 05/28/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
 Register 06/23/2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM